Progress - slow but real

The floor folks were supposed to be in on Monday since the flooring was delivered on Friday. Lo and behold, Kristin and I came home from work on Monday to find the floor in about the same condition as before with a few boards up on one side of the room.

We heard from our contractor on Tuesday AM (for an electrical walk-through) and he said that the flooring people had been working all day on Monday. It turns out that in the 40 years of hardwood flooring work the floor sub had been doing, he'd never encountered this problem. The hardwood planks were glued together (in the tongue and groove) and also glued to the subfloor.

The floor sub had worked all day an only got those few boards up. We discussed with the general contractor and rather than feather in the new floor with the existing floor we will now have a board running perpendicular as a transition between the two floor areas. This board should be the same color and width as the others, just turned 90 degrees.

The electrician did some work today and you can see the new electrical boxes temporarily placed and the fluorescent ceiling lights have been taken down. We hope to have more electrical and floor work done tomorrow.
This is the boards that took a whole day to remove. You can probably also see where the subfloor is scarred from the removal.

Here are some of the electrical workings.
Finally, here are the downed ceiling lights and big new pile of hardwood floor planks. The blue paint on the wall is what we are thinking about using in the entryway (not in the dining room).